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Learn about the new COVID variant, NB.1.8.1, and find out what health officials are saying about its spread this summer.

Learn more about firefly population decline, and how it might not be too late for these glowing insects to bounce back.

Learn more about a newly discovered dinosaur species that is now the closest-known ancestor to the Tyrannosaurs.

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